I agree about the SEC Rivalries. But, the other ones that have been ended due to the ignorance of the current situation.Pitt vs Penn StateTexas vs A&MArkansas vs any former SWC School besides A&MBut, my system fixes more faults than it causes.Here's how I fix my foul ups.You play your entire division. You play 1 team every year in the other division. Unless you win your division.That makes 8 games. We play 12 in my deal. The other 4. You play traditional rivalry games that I might have fouled up. I admit that my system is flawed somewhat. But, anything better than a playoff that only has 4 spots, and only 5 conferences can actually play for them. The current one is worse than the BCS. And, I didn't think that would be possible.I took the fix, and went totally crazy with it. But, anything would be better than the mythical championship that the top level pretends to play for.How to fix it with out going crazy like I did. Easy. Expand the playoffs to 8 teams. SEC gets 1. Big 10+4 gets 1. PAC 12 gets 1. ACC gets 1. Big 12-2 gets one. AAC gets 1. MWC gets 1. Notre Dame must either fully join ACC, or 1 of the other conferences. Same with BYU. Where do we go for the final spot?Easy. C-USA, MAC, Sunbelt are the conferences who have to figure that one out. Last year MAC would have gotten it. With out trashing the SEC, ACC, BIG 10+4, or PAC 12. How would I fix this. I'll redo my set up, and leave them alone other than add teams to get them to 16 Each. Notice that I didn't include the Big 12-2 in the off limits list. Why? Because they have shown no reason that they won't be together after the GOR expiresACC you add Notre Dame as a full member, and add West Virginia to get to 16SEC adds U of Cincinnati, Moves Missouri to the West. Adds East Carolina to get to 16BIG 10+4 adds Kansas, and Oklahoma. Purdue moves to the East.PAC 12 adds U of Houston, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, and BYULeft over Big 12-2 is Texas, Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor, Iowa State. They move into the AAC. Army also joins the AACAAC becomes Texas, Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor, SMU, Tulsa, Memphis, and Tulane in the West Iowa State, U Conn, Temple, U Central Florida, South Florida, Navy, Army, and U Mass in the EastMountain West Adds New Mexico State, Idaho, UTEP, and UTSA to get to 16MAC adds Marshall, Middle Tennessee, Old Dominion to get to 16Conference USA after losing UTEP, and UTSA, Middle Tennesse, Marshall, and Old Dominion Basically merges with the Sunbelt We got it down to 9 conferences. the one that probably will get left out will be the Sunbelt/Conference USA merger. Unless they have a perfect unbeaten team. Then I would pass on the MAC.

Uconn and that entire conference are clearly better for Division II than competing with National juggernauts, Like? Notre Dame, USC, Florida State, Alabama, LSU, or Texas

even though Uconn beat Notre Dame and has appeared in bowl gamesvia Division I, there is no shame in bringing them down to a level II typeof conference, taking Cincy, Temple, Rutgers, Villanova, Florida I U & A Ualong with Boston College and others

It does not mean they still could not play the higher level teams once during the season! it just means they would not be eligible to play in a Divisionconference bowl game

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Uconn and that entire conference are clearly better for Division II than competing with National juggernauts, Like? Notre Dame, USC, Florida State, Alabama, LSU, or Texas

even though Uconn beat Notre Dame and has appeared in bowl gamesvia Division I, there is no shame in bringing them down to a level II typeof conference, taking Cincy, Temple, Rutgers, Villanova, Florida I U & A Ualong with Boston College and others

It does not mean they still could not play the higher level teams once during the season! it just means they would not be eligible to play in a Divisionconference bowl game

I wouldn't say DII, maybe you mean Division I FCS

"Sean Taylor is hands down the best athlete I've ever coached it's not even close" Gregg Williams 2005 Mini-Camp

Maybe you keep a few to kinda balance it out but the rest? I would easily give over to Division II play even though their basketballprograms are competing in Division I

Why would these school go to DII below teams like Delaware, JMU and Richmond? Playing the likes of Fayetteville State University, Ferris State University, University of Findlay, Florida Institute of Technology ..They's FBS 1 and FCS 1 maybe that's where the confusion is...

"Sean Taylor is hands down the best athlete I've ever coached it's not even close" Gregg Williams 2005 Mini-Camp

Because nationally against some of the other known colleges like Penn State, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas, LSU, USC, Florida, FL State, Alabama, Tennessee, they don't rank up! these are big name programs in terms of football, Uconn andothers are more nationally known via their Division I basketball programs.

so I see nothing wrong with down grading a few schools to Division II in football while still keeping some of the bowl games using both I & II schools

People don't like the truth because many times the truth takes them out of their comfort zone - Jesse Ventura

TexasCowboy wrote:Because nationally against some of the other known colleges like Penn State, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas, LSU, USC, Florida, FL State, Alabama, Tennessee, they don't rank up! these are big name programs in terms of football, Uconn andothers are more nationally known via their Division I basketball programs.

so I see nothing wrong with down grading a few schools to Division II in football while still keeping some of the bowl games using both I & II schools

Ok but why would you drop them two whole divisions, why not just drop them 1 division to FCS instead of DII?

"Sean Taylor is hands down the best athlete I've ever coached it's not even close" Gregg Williams 2005 Mini-Camp

DEHog look at who you are arguing with. Why would a Div 1 fbs school move all the way down to Div 2? I do agree that some of the schools do need to move back to FCS level. But, None of them moving to Div 2.OK who would I move down. Starting with the Sunbelt conference, and some of the Conf USA schools. Which ones? Idaho already is moving down. New Mexico State also would move down. Florida Atl, and Florida International should move downHeck all of Conference USA East but Marshall. And the entire Sunbelt. Other than that keep the rest at the top level. I removed about 20 schools.That gets it down to 108 schools. The moving around gets really easy at this point.

He's not arguing, we're actually having a discussion on the subject at hand, I believe that to clear up the congestion of confusion surrounding who actually plays for the Division I title every year, along with the confusion of the playoffsystem its self, There have to be individual schools the ones I mentioned, That do need to take the step down toDivision II

Nationally many of them just aren't ever going to compete recruiting wise with the bigger name schoolsthey may offer the program in which they want a degree in? but there is also the issue of wanting to bein the NFL when their college days are over with?

They need national exposure and an actual title to give them that chance, let's face it playing in someflimsy bowl game isn't enough anymore if I were out of high school. Looking to play college ball and I were given the choice between Penn State, Notre Dame, Texas or Buffalo

you can't seriously believe I would even entertain Buffalo as my choice when the top schools are calling

I say drop the schools I mentioned to Division II and let the rest compete for the national title

People don't like the truth because many times the truth takes them out of their comfort zone - Jesse Ventura

TexasCowboy wrote:He's not arguing, we're actually having a discussion on the subject at hand, I believe that to clear up the congestion of confusion surrounding who actually plays for the Division I title every year, along with the confusion of the playoffsystem its self, There have to be individual schools the ones I mentioned, That do need to take the step down toDivision II

Nationally many of them just aren't ever going to compete recruiting wise with the bigger name schoolsthey may offer the program in which they want a degree in? but there is also the issue of wanting to bein the NFL when their college days are over with?

They need national exposure and an actual title to give them that chance, let's face it playing in someflimsy bowl game isn't enough anymore if I were out of high school. Looking to play college ball and I were given the choice between Penn State, Notre Dame, Texas or Buffalo

you can't seriously believe I would even entertain Buffalo as my choice when the top schools are calling

I say drop the schools I mentioned to Division II and let the rest compete for the national title

The FCS does not compete for a D1 "FBS" title every year. They have their own 16 team playoff...why would a Buffalo or Uconn drop all the way to DII surely they can compete in the FCS??

"Sean Taylor is hands down the best athlete I've ever coached it's not even close" Gregg Williams 2005 Mini-Camp

TexasCowboy wrote:He's not arguing, we're actually having a discussion on the subject at hand, I believe that to clear up the congestion of confusion surrounding who actually plays for the Division I title every year, along with the confusion of the playoffsystem its self, There have to be individual schools the ones I mentioned, That do need to take the step down toDivision II

Nationally many of them just aren't ever going to compete recruiting wise with the bigger name schoolsthey may offer the program in which they want a degree in? but there is also the issue of wanting to bein the NFL when their college days are over with?

They need national exposure and an actual title to give them that chance, let's face it playing in someflimsy bowl game isn't enough anymore if I were out of high school. Looking to play college ball and I were given the choice between Penn State, Notre Dame, Texas or Buffalo

you can't seriously believe I would even entertain Buffalo as my choice when the top schools are calling

I say drop the schools I mentioned to Division II and let the rest compete for the national title

The FCS does not compete for a D1 "FBS" title every year. They have their own 16 team playoff...why would a Buffalo or Uconn drop all the way to DII surely they can compete in the FCS??

DE if you notice. Posters with a clue about the subject would know the difference between Div 1 FBS P-5, and G-5, DIV 1 FCS, Div 2, Div 3, and NAIA levels of College football. Posters who are intelligent, but don't know. Would at least use google to research the topic.Also most DIV 2 level stadiums are about the size of typical High School stadiums. 99% of the schools that the uninformed poster wants moved below DIV 1 FCS level have stadiums much larger than that. U of Houston, Rice, North Texas, or SMU are lesser football schools than Sam Houston State, Stephen F. Austin, Houston Baptist, or Lamar U. This alone just boggles the mind. I listed several Texas Div 1 FCS schools to make my point.Let's look at the conferences that that poster are saying are worse than Div 1 FCS Shall we.Mountain West, All American Conference, MAC, Conf-USA, and Sunbelt are worse than the Div 1 FCS conferences of the SWAC, Ivy League, Big Sky, Big South, Colonial, Mid Eastern Atlantic, Missouri Valley, North East, Ohio Valley, Patriot League, Pioneer League, Southern, Southland. I don't think so. In fact Idaho is moving down voluntarily to the FBS next year. Not to Div 2. Now why would DIV 1 FCS allow Idaho to move down instead of what the poster wants???Also right now there are over 40 Bowl games. If what the poster wants to happen does. There would be only 65 schools in the DIV 1 FBS. And, to be eligible for a bowl game you have to win 6 games minimum. How would they fill all of those 80+ bowl games slots with only 65 schools. Oh by the way the only unbeaten team in the regular season for the FBS level was U Central Florida which is located in the AAC. Which shows that the poster knows nothing about this subject.